Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Nothing is black or white.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Freedom lies in being bold.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Be that self which one truly is.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.